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1967
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The Milkman is a low-key variation of a theme explored in such slapstick festivals as The Fuller Brush Man and...
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1950
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1948
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Without Reservations has to be the least typical John Wayne picture of the postwar era. Top billing is bestowed upon...
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1946
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Jack Oakie and Peggy Ryan head the cast of the Universal "B plus" musical On Stage Everybody. As indicated by the title, this...
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1945
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Joan Davis, the daughter of a famed woman detective, has inherited none of her mother's deductive prowess. Nonetheless, Joan...
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1945
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In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures. ~...
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1945
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The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was...
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1944
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For their first film in a year, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello played it safe with a medley of old burlesque routines and...
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce,...
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1943
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In this tuneful comedy, a would-be actor and playwright is deeply in debt, and to keep away from his creditors, begins...
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1943
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The plot of the RKO Radio programmer The Falcon Takes Over will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has seen the 1944...
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1942
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Victor Mature and Lucille Ball top the star-studded cast of RKO Radio's Seven Days Leave. Mature plays Johnny Grey, an...
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1942
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This Monogram "special" stars Frank Albertson as the title character, a police reporter named Larry Doyle. Our hero solves a...
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1942
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Top Sergeant Mulligan was Monogram Pictures' attempt to cash in on the popularity of such service comedies as Abbott &...
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1941
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1940
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1940
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In the RKO programmer You Can't Fool Your Wife, Lucille Ball gets mixed up in a storyline that would have been right at home...
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1940
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In this third of RKO's "Mexican Spitfire" series, star Lupe Velez doesn't get any further west than Reno, Nevada. Lupe feels...
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1940
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1940
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This British comedy pokes fun at Chicago gangsters as it chronicles the rivalry between to gangs battling it out aboard an...
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1938
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Film collectors take note: Hal Roach's Pick a Star is not a Laurel and Hardy picture, though the popular comic duo does make...
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1937
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Working on the theory that the only thing funnier than Laurel and Hardy is two sets of Laurel and Hardys, Our Relations milks...
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1936
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Hoping to win a 50-dollar prize, the Our Gang kids enter a radio talent contest. Despite the scene-stealing efforts of...
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1936
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The sixth of RKO's Fred Astaire -Ginger Rogers pairings of the 1930s, Swing Time starts off with bandleader Astaire getting...
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1936
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On the last day of school, the Our Gang kids learn that their beloved teacher Miss Jones (Arletta Duncan) is going to be...
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1935
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Much against his will, Spanky McFarland had been entered in a kiddie talent contest by his ambitious mother (Kitty Kelly)....
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1935
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Stan and Ollie play proprietors of an electric store, anxious to make friends with neighboring grocer Charlie Hall....
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1935
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1935
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When open auditions are announced for a radio variety program, the local station is besieged by aggressively overcoached...
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1934
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When wealthy young Jerry Tucker moves into town, the Our Gang kids line up to greet him. Alas, Jerry is a snobbish sort,...
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1934
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1934
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Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la...
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1934
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This is one of Laurel and Hardy's most entertaining sound shorts, and perhaps its beauty is in its utter comic simplicity --...
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Shop Workman
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1933
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It is Oliver Hardy's triumphant wedding day -- he is marrying the boss's daughter and thus becoming general manager for the...
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1933
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Lodge members Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take a solemn oath to attend the 80th-annual Sons of the Desert Convention (read:...
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1933
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The whole point of this Laurel and Hardy two-reeler was to dress up the comic duo as women and have them play each other's...
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1933
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are policemen on night duty. As they sit in their car having a snack, they get a call from...
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1933
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1932
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Drafted into the army during World War I, those muddled misfits Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy make a shambles of Training Camp...
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1932
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"Klopstokia: A Far-Away Country. Chief Exports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Imports: Goats and Nuts. Chief Inhabitants: Goats and...
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1932
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have just returned from a whaling trek. They check into a run-down hotel, the Mariner's Rest,...
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1932
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Tall, slinky Anita Garvin took time out from menacing Laurel and Hardy to terrorize the female Stan and Ollie next door,...
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1932
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This most famous of Laurel and Hardy shorts won an Oscar for "Best Comedy Short Subject." Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play...
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Postman
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1932
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1931
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Landlord
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1931
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While this isn't one of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's best shorts, its premise is very similar to one of their finest...
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1931
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Two-reel comedy favorites Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made their feature-film debut (excluding their guest appearances in...
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1931
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1931
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1930
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The Our Gang kids prepare to enter their scraggily pets in a high-society dog show, where their pal Allen "Farina" Hoskins is...
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1930
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Popular child actor (and later radio and TV stalwart) Leon Janney made his one and only "Our Gang" appearance in "Bear...
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1930
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In this especially amusing Laurel and Hardy short, the boys are planning a night on the town. Standing in their way is Mrs....
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1930
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Business is not good for street musicians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Perhaps it's because they're playing in front of a...
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Street Cleaner
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1930
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A goat escapes from a pet shop, and the owner reports the missing goat to the police. Laurel & Hardy have spent their last...
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1929
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A hotel is gearing up to welcome its prestigious new guest, a European Prince (Captain John Peters). But before he appears,...
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Cabdriver
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1929
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Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) are selling Christmas trees door-to-door. Stan unintentionally insults their...
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1929
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1929
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This entertaining film is one of Laurel and Hardy's most bizarre. Stan and Ollie work as stable-hands for a racehorse named...
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1929
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1929
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As usual, diminutive Our Gang member Allen "Farina" Hoskins is faced with an adult-sized dilemma. This time, Farina is a...
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1929
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In this early Laurel and Hardy sound short, Stan and Ollie are a pair of sailors on leave. They meet two girls at a park...
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1929
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1929
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Though completed before the first "Our Gang" talkie Small Talk, the silent two-reeler Little Mother was released afterward,...
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1929
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Laurel and Hardy's second two-reel talkie is made up of a few very simple scenes -- Oliver Hardy goes to meet his partner...
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1929
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This classic Laurel and Hardy comedy is famous for the pants-ripping scene at the end, but the other parts of it are just as...
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1928
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This is arguably Laurel and Hardy's best two-reel silent (the other contender for first place is Big Business). The boys play...
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Shopkeeper
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1928
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Cavern-mouthed comedian Joe E. Brown made his motion-picture debut in the FBO "special" Crooks Can't Win. Surprisingly,...
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1928
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Our Gang member Joe Cobb has to do some quick thinking when his playful but undeniably destructive pet dog Pansy is slated to...
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1928
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In this Laurel and Hardy two-reel silent, Stan's toothache is keeping both him and Ollie awake. Their attempts to pull the...
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1928
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Jewish comic Max Davidson stars in this Hal Roach farce that would most likely have been completely forgotten had not Stan...
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1927
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Laurel is Canvasback Clump, an underfed and thoroughly clueless prize-fighter, and Hardy his rather overly optimistic...
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1927
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If not the funniest of the silent Our Gang comedies, Seeing the World is certainly one of the most famous. James Finlayson is...
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1927
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Mr. and Mrs. Weedle (William Gillespie and Charlotte Mineau) are in a jam: For years, they've been receiving substantial...
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1926
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Our Gang member Allen "Farina" Hoskins decides to run away from home on the same day that an oversized, trained chimpanzee...
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1926
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Originally released on January 10, 1926, Good Cheer was Our Gang's Yuletide present to the series' legions of fans. 'Tis the...
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1926
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Easily one of the fastest and funniest of the silent Our Gang comedies, Thundering Fleas is set in motion with a sidewalk...
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1926
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Once again, the Our Gang kids embark upon a treasure hunt, this time in search of Captain Kidd's buried gold. Boarding their...
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1926
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In the mid-'20s Hal Roach gave James Finlayson his own starring series of one-reel comedies. They weren't very successful,...
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1925
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